Summary: retired
pipefitter who was hospitalized in critical condition at an intensive care unit
for two months from chemical burns he contracted in the water near his Back Bay
home while struggling through the surge with his wife Judy Collins who died the
day of the storm during the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina tropical cyclone that
struck the southeastern United States and killed at least 1,245 other people
during the record-breaking 2005 Atlantic season as the storm caused severe
destruction along the U.S. Gulf Coast from central Florida to Texas due to the
storm surge and levee failure before making its second landfall as a Category 3
hurricane in southeast Louisiana in late August 2005, in which it was one of the
five deadliest hurricanes in the history of the United States since the 1928
Okeechobee hurricane.

Cause of Death:
Chemical burns sustained in the floodwaters during Hurricane Katrina